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If you had legitimate knowledge of secret artillery stocks, you wouldn't be posting about it on a public forum.

5% of GDP is a significant amount which I am extremely skeptical of Western countries being willing to dedicate to sending aid to Ukraine

Yes, obviously. That was my point. Again, yes, this is all obvious and doesn't contradict my point. The problem is that the population of most NATO countries is not nearly dedicated enough to the war for that to be feasible, so it is irrelevant. Barring a large change in circumstances, no NATO...

I should clarify that also that I am of the opinion that either the US or the EU on their own could definitely outproduce Russia if push came to shove, though I do question the willingness of the West to make the civilian economy sacrifices necessary for high military production. They could of...

Nope, don't know the answer to any of those questions. Does @Husky_Khan know the answer to any of those questions, or really any details about the manufacturing and industrial sectors underlying the raw numbers he linked to from the World Bank? Do you, since you thanked him for the link he...

What figures did I site? It's also pretty obvious that those figures don't connect too much to warmaking capacity, seeing as highly placed as Ireland is, a country with almost no heavy industry. But just as an example, the US steel industry's market value was twice that of the Russian steel...

This appears to just be the dollar value of manufacturing, which isn't a particularly useful metric for measuring warmaking capacity. A shell that costs 19 times as much to make in one country is not necessarily 19 times better or more useful.

70,000 would absolutely be considered a small city here in the US. Town makes me think of someplace with, like, 10,000 people or so.

The economic boom caused by joining the EU didn't lead to a baby boom in Poland or the Baltic states, not sure why it'd cause one in Ukraine.